So the answer is there will be no list, and anyone mentioning that they were not allowed access will be banned.
Does this rule apply across other forums? If it's discussed on another site and comes to the mods attention, will that person be banned here?
There will not be a list of people with access. There will also not be a list of people that were denied access. I fail to see the point of such a list. Nothing good would come of it, and really it's no one else's business to know if someone were rejected.
anyone mentioning that they were not allowed access will be banned"
I don't know where you received this from your above statement.
We never said anything of the sort. This is what Perknose said in his OP:
"Applications will be taken through Moderator Discussions. You may apply but one time, and will receive a yea or nay within at least one week. You must accept our decision without further comment.
Continuing to clutter MD and presume upon our volunteer time will be considered sanctionable trolling."
What that means is if someone was denied entry, they must accept our decision. If they choose to belabor that the decision, and continue to argue in MD, most likely they would be informally warned to stop. Continuing on would possibly be a formal warning or infraction. Only further argument would possibly, be a short vacation.
From another post you made:
I assume the mods don't want it known who has access, or the criteria used to determine if someone is suitable?
We're not hiding the criteria for entry. It's pretty clear, again, what the criteria is, from Perknose's OP:
Admission to this new forum will be, perforce, perhaps severely restricted, solely at moderator discretion.
What that means is that those posters with a documented record of misbehavior need not apply. In addition, sadly, there are some P&N posters who have majorly skirted the line of decent, or even "sane" behavior. These posters need also not apply.
Now remember that these people, (those with documented misbehavior), that we tell upfront need not apply? Some of them will still apply and they will be rejected.
Does this rule apply across other forums? If it's discussed on another site and comes to the mods attention, will that person be banned here?
I am not sure why we have to even address this. I suppose if someone who was rejected here for entry to the new subforum, wants to rant on another forum, let them as far as I am concerned.
This is really not a big deal, so please, don't make this out to be more than it is. Its just an experiment to see if we can create a a less hostile P&N area for discussion. It's really not necessary to try to dissect this.